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A virtual Mirthfest

https://ransomevergladesschool.smugmug.com/2020-21/Mirthfest-2020/Anyone who knows art teacher Astrid Dalins knows she wouldn't let a mere pandemic interrupt the tradition of Mirthfest at the upper school. The annual pumpkin art contest this year brought 52 submissions, 15 winners and one grand-prize recipient: Tea Vallone '24, who submitted "A Happy Pumpkin Life," a video of a hand-drawn flipping book.
Best of Show
"A Happy Pumpkin Life," a video of a hand-drawn flipping book. Tea Vallone '24
 
Best in Grades: Traditional
12th: "Mirthfest"  Camille Devaney '21
11th: "Ronald McDonald Gone Crazy"  Kerryn Xu '22
10th: "Revenge of the Lost Gourds"  Nicolas Maynulet '23
9th: "Navigating to Mirthfest"  Steph Wallen '24
 
Best in Grades: Non-Traditional
12th: "Mirth: It just makes cents"  Ryle Love '21   (sculpture of coins)
11th: "Mirth is the Cure"  Juan Rivera '22    (a poem with illustrations)
10th: "Pumpkin Cheesecake"  Ryan Berkshire '23  (pumpkin cheesecake)
9th: "Portable Pumpkin"  Fiona Mateo '24  (succulents, ziplock bag, cotton balls, acrylic paint)
 
Honorable Mentions to Traditionalists
RE Pumpkin in a Pumpkin" Eli Goldman '22
"A Fearful Pumpkin"  Denise Suarez '23
"Fall Fox"  Becca Ebenbach '24
 
Honorable Mentions to Non-Traditionalists
"Pumpkin Yoshi"  Jared Gardner '21
"The Maiden of Mirth" Dominique Smith '22
"Pumpkin in the Sky"  Natalia Atabaki '22
 
Junior Mirthfestees
"Halloween Fun"  Sophia Rose Bloomfield
"Smiling Pumpkin" Beatrice Rhyner
"Jack-0" Nevin Rhyner
 
Faculty Mirthfestees
"Among Us: Red Sus"  Ms. Karen Thompson
"Happy Halloween"  Mr. Jorge Guzman
"Princess Tangerumpkin"  Ms. Astrid Dalins
 
A special thank you from the officers of REAL and PEEL to:
Carmen Guillen-Casal of Blick Art Supply for help with Judging and lovely art supply prizes from Blick/Utrecht
Suzanne Kores for endless help with the submissions, transmissions, exhibitions of the virtual Mirth
Linda Lawrence and IT for making Mirth go out into the cloud of Mirth in the sky and back to us again.

Mirthfest photo gallery
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